The arrow to open the tab history of the Back and Forward buttons has been removed in Firefox 4 and later.

Use one of these methods to open the tab history list:

• Right click on the Back or Forward button
• Hold down the left mouse button on the enabled Back or Forward button until the list opens

You can look at this extension:

• Backward Forward History Dropdown: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/backforedrop/

Why on earth would developers think we want to go back a page at a time, d'uh!!! If you have gone to 20 sites on one tab why on earth would you go back page by page - it seems to me such a core user requirement - or am I 'special' lol?!

Please read what cor-el posted. The little "down" arrow was removed, but the forward / back "list" is still there.

You may not like any of the three (3) solutions cor-el provided, but any of them resolve the problem, and should be marked accordingly.

We are users we help you work with what you've got. I'm for the removal myself, as I had been removing it for some time, and yes people should have been told about it, but that is not what we do here. We simply help you find solutions if there is one, there were three solutions, so that was done.

I don't know if you just tossed out 20 sites on a tab but that is an interesting issue because you will only see 15 of them and won't see the starting entry until you break off (remove) the more recent the history by going to another link from one of the items lower down.

Based on pictures I think this extension looks more conventional

• "Back/forward dropmarker" extension
  https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/backforward-dropmarker/

Thanks everyone for the replies, I am now using the add on suggested by Cor-el but will also have a look at the latest suggestion as well.